Kevin Keegan has always done it his way, so when he vowed not to speak to the media until before the Hartlepool game - he wasn't going to be persuaded to do otherwise by anybody.
Presumably Keegan wanted to concentrate on working with what he had and there is at least a good nucleus of players to work with plus the new boys Jonas Gutierrez and Danny Guthrie.
Yet while that's all positive stuff from me, most Toon fans are more than a tad anxious over the lack of new faces coming into St James's Park - thankfully Keegan agrees with them.
He reassured fans today when he said: "We not only will add new faces - we have to."
Keegan though stated clearly he won't buy for the sake of buying.
Newcastle fans have heard plenty of names over the summer and truth is that they have been working down a list of players, although, the success levels haven't been high.
Keegan says that he's tried to get certain players and had players thrown at him, yet they were of the wrong age and the wrong position.
But one thing is clear.
Keegan, along with Dennis Wise and those other two blokes, has a brief to recruit "younger players who can stay longer at the club."
You can't really argue with that unless another Peter Beardsley turns up, but what are the chances of that these days?
There aren't too many local lads of high quality knocking about full stop, never mind ageing Geordies who want to finish their career on Tyneside.
Keegan concluding his first interview with the media by indicating nobody from the current squad will be sold unless he wants them to go.
Thank god for that!
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